THE RELIGIOUS OF CHRISTIAN INSTRUCTION

Registered charity 243995 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Institute has continued to fulfil its principal aims through the education and formation of religious sisters, by teaching, pastoral and other work at the two schools in Effingham and by care and pastoral work in the parishes of Sherborne and Effingham and elsewhere.

Objects

FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES WHICH ADVANCE THE RELIGIOUS AND OTHER CHARITABLE WORK CARRIED ON IN ENGLAND AND WALES BY THE SOCIETY AS THE TRUSTEES WITH THE APPROVAL OF THE SUPERIOR SHALL THINK FIT.

Area of benefit: ENGLAND AND WALES

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £35,379 before investment gains, with total funds standing at £3,536,362. The trustees are satisfied that the overall financial position is sound and that the charity has sufficient resources to meet its liabilities as they fall due. However, they note that resources are limited in the face of future needs, particularly regarding the increasing number of retired sisters.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• SISTER JOSEPHINE O'FLAHERTY
• Sister Eulalia Maria Wanderley De Lima
• Sister Rose Solange Fatuma

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Belgium · Dorset · Surrey

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ENGLISH PROVINCE OF THE BROTHERS OF CHRISTIAN INSTRUCTION.

• ENGLISH PROVINCE OF THE BROTHERS OF CHRISTIAN INSTRUCTION income £3.6m
• ST EDMUNDSBURY AND IPSWICH DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £10.1m
• TRUST PROPERTY HELD IN CONNECTION WITH THE ENGLISH PROVINCE OF THE CONGREGATION OF CHRISTIAN BROTHERS income £1.7m
• INSTITUTE OF DAUGHTERS OF MARY HELP OF CHRISTIANS, OTHERWISE SALESIAN SISTERS OF ST JOHN BOSCO income £792k
• SISTERS OF CHARITY OF ST JEANNE ANTIDE CIO income £2.6m
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF CHOBHAM WITH VALLEY END income £144k

Side by side with its peers

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